Privacy Terms
Bluntisham Beer Festival (“We”, “Us”, BBF) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to therein) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018 (the Act), the data controller is Matthew Sampson, Bluntisham Beer Festival Committee of C/o Bluntisham Village Hall, Mill Lane, Bluntisham.
Data collection
The type of information we collect from you
The personal information we collect might include your name, email address, IP address, and information regarding which pages you access and when. If you purchase admission tickets or drinks tokens online from us, your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors (Stripe), who specialise in secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions.
How we collect this information, and why
We collect information about you when you use our website, for example, when you buy admission tickets or drink tokens for the Beer Festival, when you contact us or if you register to receive our newsletter. We then keep this information in order to fulfil our obligations to you by supplying you with admission tickets and/or drinks tokens and, if you asked us to, keeping you in touch with future events.
Use of data
How we use this information, and why
We may use your information
- To process your order for admission tickets and/or advance-sales drinks tokens which you have decided to purchase and which you have submitted to us.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us, for example, in fulfilling your ticket order on our ticket-booking system and by sending you emails.
- To send you communication which you have requested and which may be of interest to you. This may include information about our annual beer festival, news, promotions, offers and/or surveys.
- To ensure that the content and design of our website is presented in the most efficient way to you and for the computer or device you are using to access it at the time.
We review our retention periods of personal data on an annual basis.
- If you buy/bought online admission tickets and drinks/food tokens from us at previous festivals your personal data (everything except name & email address) will be deleted from our ticket booking systems within 6 months. We will retain your name and email address to inform you of our future festivals. If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, then please let us know.
Disclosure
Who has access to your information
The Bluntisham Beer Festival will not sell or rent your information to third parties and will we not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
When you are using our secure online ticket buying pages, your purchase is processed by a third party payment processor (Stripe), who specialises in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us.
If you request to be kept up-to-date with news about the festivals and forthcoming ticket sales for next year’s event, your email address is processed by a third party marketing automation platform (MailChimp), who specialise in the secure online management of email addresses for newsletter distribution. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us.
Use of data in marketing
Your options
If you do not want us to keep your personal data (name and email address) for the purposes of buying your admission tickets and/or drinks tokens, then you can cancel your registration at any time prior to completing the purchase with Stripe, and buy your admission tickets directly from The Bluntisham Beer Festival on the door.
You can choose whether or not you wish to receive information from us. If you do not want to receive direct marketing communications from us with news about this year’s festival and next year’s ticket sales launch, then you can tell us by e-mailing info@bluntybeerfest.info.
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email unless you have given your prior consent. You can change your marketing preferences at any time by contacting us by email: info@bluntybeerfest.info
Accuracy
How you can update your information
The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. In the meantime, if you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at info@bluntybeerfest.info
How you can access your information
You have the right to ask for a copy of the Bluntisham Beer Festival holds about you. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data.
Security
Precautions we take to protect your information
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s received and processed securely. Personal and sensitive information (such as your name or credit/debit card details) is encrypted and protected with 128 Bit encryption on SSL. You will know when you are on such a secure page because a green lock icon will appear within the browser’s address bar.
Where we store your personal information
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites run by other organisations; our partner networks and sponsors. This privacy policy applies only to our website and so when you follow a link to any of these websites, we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
Similarly, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check their privacy policy.
Our website’s cookies
Parts of our website may uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. ‘Cookies’ are small pieces of information sent by an organisation’s website to your computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive to allow that website to recognise you and when you visit. Cookies collect statistical data about your browsing actions and patterns and they can not identify you as an individual. Cookies help us improve our website and deliver a better more personalised service.
By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. However, turning off cookies may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted to this page on this website. Our last edits were made on 4th May 2022.
Donation specific terms
Financial donations from the Beer Festival committee made to local causes are to be considered a single, one off donation. The committee will publish details of all organisations who receive donations together with photos on the website, facebook, twitter and local news outlets. If organisations are not willing to be published in this way, they should not apply.
Local groups or charities are welcome to apply for donations of up to £500. If a project requires more than £500, applications will be considered stating the total amount required however may receive less than they applied for. The committee may decide to award donations to a value greater than £500 at its sole discretion.
The committee will consider and award funding for projects that are located, based in, or will directly benefit residents within the villages of Bluntisham, Colne or Earith. Application suitability will be judged on the impact, quality and funding needs of proposals.
There is no limit to the number of applications a group or organisation can make. The committee will look more favorably on projects that need additional support to complete (I.e: the organisation already have some funding or have been fundraising for prior to applying to the committee).
The committee does not guarantee a donation for every application.
The committee’s decision is final. The committee is not part of the parish council and is not required to comply with any public sector or local government regulations. The committee is not required to donate any specific percentage of the festival profits each year and it reserves the right to retain whatever percentage of funding for future years.
Committee decisions are agreed by voting within committee meetings. If an even number of committee members are present then the chairperson has the casting vote.
The committee is completely voluntary. No committee member will receive any financial reward at any time. Any profit from festivals will be either reserved for future festivals or made available for local organisations in the form of donations.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Matthew Sampson, the Data Controller info@bluntybeerfest.info
